LOGINOlivia POVThree months after we saw the humans off with their furious but quite effectively chained captive, I sat on a bench watching the groundskeepers put the finishing flourishes on the labyrinth at the end of the meditation walk.The air was redolent with freshly tilled soil and shorn grass. N
Olivia POVI’d seen humans before, though never more than two at the same time. At first glance, they’d seemed like wolves in their skin, then at second glance, they’d clearly been neither alpha, beta, nor omega, which sometimes did happen with wolves. Usually, when a pup was born without a secondar
Olivia POVThe celebration started in a small way at the temple.As Luna, I was frequently asked to call for the Goddess’s blessing for pups, newly born or unborn, but it was quite special to do it for my own child.As I stood there by the Orb of the Goddess, my hand upon it, Elroy stood on the othe
Now that I had been released to acknowledge Olivia as my true fated mate, I found myself growing increasingly dazed by her, unable to believe my luck, my astonishingly good fortune that this woman whose beauty had made me instantly ache to take her to my bed had become my wife, my Luna, my life comp
Elroy POVThe task before us was clear. We not only had to root out the remnants of Emma’s schemes but also reform the political and social environment in which they had been hatched and supported.What wasn’t clear was just how to do it.I had started by talking to Emma’s willing supporters, but wh
Olivia POVI watched Emma plunge a dagger into her father’s chest before she threw her head back and shouted something like, “Jeh mang lah coor de monpear poor rejoin da tapussence.” Then she reached into his chest to pull out Hermes’s heart. Several wolves around me screamed in horror.Elroy moved
Olivia POV“Is that what we’ve been reduced to?” Elder Thornton’s raspy voice rose above the muttering of the crowd. “Accusations of black magic?”Olivia ignored him and walked up to within three feet of Emma. My wife’s hair and skin glowed with health and fertility in the sunlight, and her simple w
Elroy paused, several emotions flitting across his face in quick succession. I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to decipher them all, though, not with everything I’d been through in the last few hours—let alone the last two weeks.I put my hand over my baby as I tried to come up with the ghost of
Moonshadow deserved me. It wasn’t until we were outside of the building that Greg seemed to realize he could move again. “You ungrateful bitch!” he yelled after me. Then he was yelling wordlessly into the sky, a roar that became a howl, that was joined by more howls with every step I forced myself
Oh, I thought dumbly, I guess that explains how he got in the venue. Then I thought, Wait. Does that mean I tried to pay a pack Alpha for sex?Why either of those were my first thoughts was beyond me—there were far more important bits of information in there. Like, for instance, the fact that I had







